Performancing Partners to close and more.
Posted by Kirk M on 24 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Blogging
I just happened to pull up my pinch hit blog editor (PFF) that lives at the bottom of Firefox to see if the Performancing feeds were back on line yet (they were, after a long absence) and what to my wondering eyes did appear? Read on.
First, it appears that I will be pulling the Performancing Partners logo from my sidebar as of today. Chris Garrett, who has (had?) taken over as CEO of Performancing has had to close down The Partners Ad Network for lack of funding. The network will be shutdown as of the end of this month.
It takes a lot of guts and courage to turn away from badly needed funding (see my previous post about this albeit wise if not possibly devastating decision) when the alternative is possibly losing everything.
Here’s Chris’s post on the matter.
Submitted by Chris Garrett on January 22, 2007 - 5:00pm in Performancing Partners
I’m sad to tell you that Partners has to close. While I have every faith it could have worked, it wasn’t going to happen fast enough. Without more money invested it wasn’t going to happen at all.
Any ads currently in the system will continue to run until the end of the month at which time the ad code will stop working. Please take your ad code down from your templates then. Remaining ad time will of course be refunded.
This news is surely not going to be popular. All I can say is thank you to all the publishers and advertisers who tried the service and to all the people in the forums who provided feedback and ideas. I am gutted I couldn’t have some time to act on your suggestions.
Source: Performancing Partners to close | Performancing.com
Then in a surprise post by Nick Wilson (former CEO and now apparently taking the reins once again), he announces that Chris Garrett is leaving Performancing altogether to pursue his own projects:
Well it’s been quite a ride so far for Performancing. We’ve had to close down Metrics, but have promised to help release it as open source this year, we’ve just announced the closure of our blog advertising program, though behind the scenes some interesting discussions are being had with friends of the companies regarding that and briefly, I resigned as CEO and we had Chris takeover.
I’m sad to say that Chris has decided he’s better off working on his ongoing projects , though he will remain a part of the community and will certainly remain a good friend of the company’s.. If you’ve not caught it, I highly recommend a subscription to his personal blog at Chrisg.org. Chris ‘ formal departure will be a huge loss for us, and I in particular will be at a loss when in need of advice regarding the community here — hopefully he’ll still feel compelled to add his 2c occasionally
There’s more in his post and I would recommend reading it for those who may be associated with Performancing like myself or use the Performancing blog editor extension for Firefox as I often do at times. He has interesting info on that as well.
I wish them all the best of luck and hope that they are able to at least go back to giving the sound advice they always have to the everyday blogger and how best to handle the blogging end of things. Taking back the small blog editing extension that was known as Performancing For FireFox (PFF) now rebranded as ScribeFire and continuing to work on that end as well would be a bonus.
I really would hate to see them go altogether.
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